Itsik Bilia is a MA student in the National Security and Maritime Strategy program at University of Haifa. He holds a degree in Software Engineering (cum laude) from ORT Braude College (2002) and he has 15 years of experience working in the field of software development in several Israeli high tech industry companies, including Rafael, SanDisk and Western Digital. He served in the Israeli Army in the field of Military Intelligence. Itsik also holds a teacher’s certificate from the Open University of Israel and a rabbinic ordination diploma from the Chief Rabbinate of Israel.